I did not include photos of the plants within this video as a way of pushing people to undertake further research. I never want anyone to pick, consume or use a plant without fully understanding how to identify it correctly. There are many plants out there that may appear to be mundane weeds, that are very toxic. If you would like to identify the plants discussed today, I would suggest doing thorough research on its identifiable features to avoid physical harm that can come from plant misidentification.
What is the Latin name of the daisy you’re talking about? In Sweden we have two types of daisies that looks similar to each other. Bellis perennis and Leucanthemum vulgare.
Just be very careful everyone that you aren't picking them in places that have been chemically treated or where they may have been sprayed. Plants were a lot safer in our grandmothers' day.
Daisies are also associated with childhood and innocence, as it is a very resiliant flower. It can be used to heal trauma and abuse and helps clearing your skin.
Hello Hearth! Dandelion comes from the French: Dent de lion, literally Lion's tooth. In French, Dandelions are called "Pissenlit", literally "Piss a bed" haha languages! Dock is called "Oseille" in French which is a slang name for money, so it makes sense that dock is associated with money I think. Buttercups are "Boutons d'or", gold buttons in French. When I was a child, we also placed them under the chin "oh I love butter!" Thanks for all your researches! Love from Belgium
This is my thing. I go up and down the street I'm on identifying pants and picking and using them. So I can further get myself involved with my current surroundings and have the power of this environment behind me.
i work with Brigid and a few days ago i felt like i should pick up a dandelion for her (i discovered after that she is associated with them) and i couldn't because it was raining and so in my dream that night i felt her presence and we were on a field and only one dandelion was there and i picked it up and gave it to her. she found a way to get that flower from me and once again taught me a good lesson.
I expect that the dandelions opening and closing is more of a reference to when the sky gets light and gets dark. Speaking as someone who used to wake up early for farm work, 5am/8pm I can attest to 5am being the time the sky gets lighter in may/june. I noticed other flowers responding to the light but dandelions didn't grow there. I doubt it's exactly the same every day but probably pretty close unless it's overcast.
I can confirm that Dock Leaves do indeed provide relief for nettle stings. It worked for me as a child all the time, because I kept jumping into nettle patches!
in some parts of the US mugwort is an invasive species. so depending on where you are, you can feel free to dig up the whole plant - roots and all. it may help your local environment a bit on top of all the magickal and medicinal properties! i’m just starting to learn about invasive species, so i’m by no means an expert, but it’s worth looking in to :)
I find it interesting that butter cup can be dangerous because I remember as a kid every child picked them and put them under people's chins like "oh I can tell you like butter."
IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT WEEDS: You sort of touched on this but I didn't hear it come right out in the clear, so... Anyone who wants to try using "weeds" (especially the ubiquitous dandelion) should NOT just use any picked from a yard, park, or roadside (at least here in the US)! Any greenery of any kind in those areas is likely to have been sprayed with varying combinations of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. that can be absorbed into a plant (as opposed to just coating the leaves and thus be washable) -- and those chemicals can easily sicken you, your pets/familiars, etc. When harvesting plants, make sure they have truly grown "in the wild" and not been sprayed in this manner. That said...Technically, a rosebush in the middle of a cornfield is as much a weed as a dandelion in the middle of a lawn. :-) Something that really caught my attention was the use of dandelion seed heads as a timekeeping tool -- I'd never heard of that before! I had long ago learned about making a wish and blowing on them (if all the seeds blew away, your wish was supposed to come true). Now I'm wondering if this is just something I missed or a difference between the opposite sides of The Pond... any of my fellow Yanks able to help me out with this question? PS - Dandelions are weeds only because they offend more modern ideas of "proper" lawns... They can be so useful that they were brought over to North America by settlers from the UK, and just about every part of the plant is useful. (Somehow, my neighborhood homeowners' association doesn't want to hear about it... )
Months ago I had a dream that recurred: I walked out the back door of a little house straight into a garden of herbs, weeds, flowers, and all sorts of strange plants. I went all the way to the end where there was gardeners shed. It just sticks with me--I have made great efforts to control by hand the "weeds" and desired plants which now could be different. More videos on what grows around us--I loved this! TYVM
The problem with the name "Dock" is that it refers to different plants in different areas. The one you described as being used to wrap butter is properly called Butterbur (Petasites species). In the Northwest of England, dock often refers to Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), which does relieve nettle stings, but in West Yorkshire, dock is the local name for Bistort (Polygonum bistorta), which is traditionally used to make "Dock Pudding".
That's really interesting. My mother (in the US) taught me that sorrel and dock were the same plant. I grow large leaf sorrel for a lemony addition to my salads. I'll have to look up a recipe for "dock pudding", as now I'm imagining a delicious lemony flavored custard.
That explains so much. I'm in the south US, and I had NEVER heard of a plant called a Dock. Sorrel, while uncommon around me, is a plant I'm more familiar with though.
For the nettle stings, you need to crush the dock leaf in your hands very hard so the juice comes out and then drip that on the sting - it's soothing :)
I'd love to know and magical uses of mushrooms and toadstools. I've always had a strange fascination with them. I like drawing them too. They remind me of childhood books about fairies.
I would love to see more videos like this. If you decide to talk about more plats or weeds in the future, would you consider to include a picture of each plant? I think it could be helpful to recognise the plant you are talking about. :) I once found a bunch of five - and six leaf clovers in a patch of the lawn by my elementary school. There were lots of them, and I wonder wether it was some variety of clover or just mutated ones, because the rest of the lawn only had regular three leaf clovers. I remember me and my friends picking several of each and thought that we would get a lot of extra luck, because we found so many of them. I have never seen clovers like that since.
The main reason I didn’t was to stop people from jumping in to picking plants without doing further research to fully identify them. Helps to stop people from going out and picking something that looks similar 😊
honestly the amount of research and information and prep you do for a video, really really makes me happy to support you! Thank you so so much for your efforts!
This is so relevant! I was just thinking about ways to use Garlic Mustard which is an invasive species here in North America. It's biennial and when young it's got round leaves with scalloped edges, that become more pointy as they get older. I recommend looking into how to identify them as well as their uses in food (it's got a garlic-y, bitter flavor) as well as spellwork. Using them does the environment a favor, and also they're versatile and abundant p much everywhere.
So glad you posted this! Was looking in a different witches videos for the correspondents with clover! I'd love a whole video on clovers and clover flowers! I've always loved tying them into tiaras and recently discovered that my grandpa who is irish is with me as a guide. He always was able to find 4 leaf clovers just sitting from a chair, not even on the ground.
You posted this at the most perfect time. I have a new yard and was just figuring out what weeds I want to keep for my practice and what to pull. I also just bought some native plants that are called weeds but I love clover and other ground cover. So I will be planting more weeds and am very excited. This video will make my day! Hugs Hearth 🌱💛
If you can, let the yard run wild. Let the native species take over the space, your local wildlife will thank you for it. You can also grow a relationship with the plants and gain their permission and feed off of their energy for workings.
Please do deep dives on dandelions, dailies, and clovers! Other wild plants i would suggest are "heal-all" (prunella vulgaris), and common plantain (plantago major)! I always love your videos for straightforward information, your videos are always a wonderful resource that i go back to often! Sending you love!
I once learned about the "Piss-a-bed" name of Dandelion after I had the pleasure of living up to that name. I fully understand the power and potency of Dandelion and will treat her use with a lot more lightness 😭🤣
I really love using white dead-nettle in witchcraft, it grows quite abundantly around me in the countryside, and I find it useful for protection and cleansing
@35:20 I hear you, Hearth, my hair frizzes out so bad in the summer. That little dying noise, is exactly what my hair does if I take it out of a bun too soon. It just kinda sadly deflates and then frizzes out. Im undecided on the curly girl method so far, but I do think the extra conditioner helps hold the curl better and makes it less frizzy. Is it a waste of conditioner? Possibly. Does it make my hair hella soft? Very.
I really enjoyed learning more about plants and their magical properties. I do hope you get your overalls on and do more videos on plant/garden magick because you're my go to person to learn about practices.
I have to say again that this was awesome! Just Loved it more than you know? Who knew? What an original way to teach us all about lost knowledge that we still all put to use? I absolutely adore it! Thank you, thank you, thank you.🔮
I've been practice for 4 years and have already heard of these but your correspondence on them is much better then mine. I'm saving this video. Thank you for your knowledge. 💜
Dock leaves regarding stinging nettles: the wax from the dock leaves fills in the tiny holes that a nettle creates in your skin. The pain from a nettle sting is mainly from air getting into the tiny holes. The wax from the dock leaves creates a barrier from the air. This can also be achieved with vaseline. Dock leaves regarding burns: I'm a nursing student who has had a placement in burns, and burns are often treated with yellow paraffin (aka vaseline) so long as the wound was not "open" and a risk to infection. This is usually used when the burn has fresh new skin that is red/pink where the wound bed was. I am unsure whether it is again the waxiness of the dock leaf having similar properties to the vaseline as to why it was used for burns but it is an interesting concept/theory I would like to research and explore.
In an old video of yours I watched recently you talked about how a traditional form of candle magic worked with the element of fire and not the candle so you could reuse the same candle stick for multiple spells I think a video specifically on how you can do a spell like this would be great especially for some of us broke witches on a budget
When I was younger, we always got told to use the liquid that the dandelions hold. If you'd pick it, at the bottom there would be a milky substance (we called it dandelions milk) this most of the times did aid in soothing nettle stings
I have about 10 4 leaf clovers that I saved & collected from my husband who has been founding them throughout the years we been together. Hes really good at spotting them. Its funny cuz before I ever met my husband. I never seen a real 4 leaf clover in my life I never even have been able to find one. But since I been with my husband I have found about 3 since we have been together. The first one I found while I was talking to him over the phone. But I never found one when I wasnt with my husband in person or talking with him on the phone. 💚💚💚💚
Very interesting, thank you for your research. One really interesting thing for me is one of the names for buttercup. Toe of frog, was used by the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. I didn't know it referred to the buttercup! ❤️
I appreciate you have a discord so I understand if you already cover this elsewhere but I think a video on herbology would be fantastic! Different soils, environments, magical practices.
Hi Hearth, As an ecologist, and amateur gardener, I have to agree that weeds isn't the most appropriate term for these plants you discuss. In fact, the more appropriate term is "early successional" plants, as they are the hardy opportunists that grow in recovering ecosystems to develop back into fully mature, old growth ecosystems after decades or centuries of development. Also, dandelion is based on the French word that refers to the leaf shape that looks like lions teeth :) Trefoil is the layman name for the scientific genus group of clovers "Trifolium." I wonder if there are different correspondences for the two super common Eastern US red clover (Trifolium pratense) and white clover (Trifolium repens). There are lots of similar plants like aslike clover (T. hybridium), buffalo clover, the endangered running buffalo clover, black medic aka hop clover (Medicago lupulina)
I'm not very English-y person, it's not my mother tounge, but funny thing: before watching this video the only meaning of the word "weed" that I knew was in the "smoking weed" phrase ^^" Of course, I learned much more than that while listening and I am very thankful~ The way you talk and explain things inspire me to dig deeper into witchy knowledge, ahh there is so much to be learned about this world
Last time I was in Washington DC the healing/poisonous plants garden was still there. I hate to say this was years ago, but I'm ready for another trip there. The bark of trees is another area of interest--cinnamon is bark, I have a "paperbark maple" growing for years, etc.
Hi Hearth! Thank you so much for this video, dock and buttercups really are difficult to find information about so this was very helpful. I'd be very interested in any further video you could make about some properties of trees, like oak, holly and willow, or the creeper vines like ivy
Doc leaves are very powerful medicinal herbs, but the reason some feel the effect against nettles and some don't is because its the oil of the leaf not the leaf itself that works. For best results extract the oil using steaming
My sister has a form of color blindness that seems to let her easily see 4 leaf clovers. She can just stand in a patch and point 3-4 out without really doing much. She doesn't pick them though. As a kid she would and usually within the hour bad things seemed to happen to her. She sees them as unlucky signs for her now.
Three "weeds" that grow in my yard that I love and use are plantain, comfrey and evening primrose... Oh and wild chamomile 😉 I love this video and look forward to more 💜
Wow. I just watched another video of yours with your neon green eye shadow and I almost got a shock seeing you so natural with the brown. It makes you a whole completely different person, style wise. 😂
great video!!! :) when I was little we used to rub dandelion flower on our skin and the yellow color symbolized something but I cant remember what lol. One of your vids you talk about 'banish cleanse protect' or 'cleanse banish protect'...? forgot the order. I'd love a video on these three steps! I think I got the cleansing down esp from your other vids but the banish and protect part I am not feeling Im doing successfully. thanks for all you do!!!!💚
Just wanted to share another name for Dandelion from my country (portugal): "Bald Dad" (Pai Careco/a), as kids we have a game where we ask eachother "Is your dad bald?" and then blow on the dandelion to see how much "hair" is still attached, always found that funny :P
I love this BC I love these herbs and so called weeds have wonderful magical properties. Burdock is also called cramp root for womens monthly visit so you can use it for tea. But consult someone to make sure they are this plant before consuming.
I didn't realize until watching this video, that I've stopped referring to them as weeds, and just calling them "invasive" type plants, because really that's what people consider weeds, are plants that easily invade other spaces. I also personally have to be careful with the thought of using dandelions because my mom is allergic, and I don't know if I inherited it some of that, along with our other allergies. (BTW apparently Lettuce is a part of the dandelion family. Thanks mom) Now I want to look in my book of wildflowers native to Texas though, and research/find them to discover their magical properties.
I have had fruit trees that don't grow wildly just pop up since I started. I have eaten wild carrot mushroom strawberry wild garlic. I have learned parts of pine that are edible. I live on a farmstead left by my grandfather. I need my own bees! Dandelion can cause upset stomach it's good to clean you internally. I will try observing dandelion behavior. I have gone meadow and I walk out over 18 acres every day
I was going to harvest so many dandelions from my garden and do wonderful things. Then I didn't. I went away for a few days. Now I have knee high clocks EVERYWHERE!!!
I’ve never heard of a Dock leaf plant here in the USA. Loved hearing all the definitions of the “Weed” terminology. I’ve become completely immersed in learning everything & anything herb/weed related. Even the dandelions beautiful seed pods I have drying in their full natural form. They are truly magnificent dried. Blessed be🔮
My granny and I were always hunting dock leaves when I was a child. During World War II in Italy there was no sugar and kids used to suck the roots of dock leaves because of the sugary taste 🌿🌿
In Persian we call dandelion "Ghasedak" which literally means "little messanger" and when ppl belive if you find a dandelion in an uncommon place it means someone is thinking of you or the universe wants to pass you a message
Yes, chamomile is its own plant. Chamomile tea is made from the flowers of that plant. They do look kind of like small dasies, but the plant itself is quite different from daises.
I believe that if you dream of dandelion might tell you that you crave dandelion like energy in you life, never go for a good or bad meaning, be open to messages of all kind!
The info on dock I believe is mixed up with plantane of which there are to variety’s a round leafed one and a long thin leafed one plantane works amazing on nettle stings you crush it up ulmost to a paste and gently rub it into the sting and it will relieve the pain and itch in a few seconds.
If you could make a video about where to research folk stuff (even if only in britain) it would be great! I love researching plants and I'm always kinda lost about where to read about them in magickal terms!
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I did not include photos of the plants within this video as a way of pushing people to undertake further research. I never want anyone to pick, consume or use a plant without fully understanding how to identify it correctly. There are many plants out there that may appear to be mundane weeds, that are very toxic. If you would like to identify the plants discussed today, I would suggest doing thorough research on its identifiable features to avoid physical harm that can come from plant misidentification.
props to you for doing that!
You also need to be sure that nothing toxic has been sprayed on it.
@@pinkagave4774 Yup Yup! Hoping someone else would say this :)
What is the Latin name of the daisy you’re talking about? In Sweden we have two types of daisies that looks similar to each other. Bellis perennis and Leucanthemum vulgare.
I have a cute sign in my yard with Eeyore saying "Weeds are flowers too once you get to know them." I love "weeds" ☺
Yes i need this
I love Eeyore, he is a mood😂
I adore this!!! I want one too!
People: witches are scary and dangerous
Witches: the idea of waking up at five am makes me want to cry
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People: witches practice evil things.
Witches: ugh, do I have enough rosemary for my cleansing ritual?
As a kid I was always told that if you blow a dandelion seed head, you could make a wish, and if you cleared it in one blow, it would come true.
Me too, I've never seen someone else who was told that too! My little brother and I used to argue over dadelions
@@Mousy0913 Really? Every person I know has said that!
Yup, that’s why my nephew calls them wishes lol
I definitely heard you could wish on dandelions. Parents hated this cause then their yards were full of dandelions 😂
My grandma always told me that if you blew them, the amount of remaining little puffs were the amount of kids you would have haha
I like using dandelion for both sun and moon. The yellow flowers remind me of the sun and the white puffy seeds remind me of the moon a lot.
omg that's actually clever
ooooh that work so well with the fact of the sun and moon being ‘sisters’ and all
I never thought of that before
My Italian grandmother taught me to harvest dandelion leaves. We made salad of them with sweet onion. Red wine vinegar and oil.
Just be very careful everyone that you aren't picking them in places that have been chemically treated or where they may have been sprayed. Plants were a lot safer in our grandmothers' day.
I am italian and I can 100% confirm that my granny and I still do that
Daisies are also associated with childhood and innocence, as it is a very resiliant flower. It can be used to heal trauma and abuse and helps clearing your skin.
I just use dandelions because they are abundant where I live and because the flower head reminds me of the sun.
Hello Hearth!
Dandelion comes from the French: Dent de lion, literally Lion's tooth. In French, Dandelions are called "Pissenlit", literally "Piss a bed" haha languages!
Dock is called "Oseille" in French which is a slang name for money, so it makes sense that dock is associated with money I think.
Buttercups are "Boutons d'or", gold buttons in French. When I was a child, we also placed them under the chin "oh I love butter!"
Thanks for all your researches!
Love from Belgium
I would love to hear more about deadly Nightshade and poisonous plants in magick practice.
Any poisonous plant can worked with baneful magick
Nightshade and wolfsbane and things like that would be cool to learn about, as well as how to handle them safely.
This is my thing. I go up and down the street I'm on identifying pants and picking and using them. So I can further get myself involved with my current surroundings and have the power of this environment behind me.
That's an excellent practice.
dadelion flowers close when it is going to rain to protect the seeds inside, many flowers do that.
my name is Daisy! I've always loved the flowers and didn't realise that they were considered weeds by some people!
i work with Brigid and a few days ago i felt like i should pick up a dandelion for her (i discovered after that she is associated with them) and i couldn't because it was raining and so in my dream that night i felt her presence and we were on a field and only one dandelion was there and i picked it up and gave it to her. she found a way to get that flower from me and once again taught me a good lesson.
I expect that the dandelions opening and closing is more of a reference to when the sky gets light and gets dark. Speaking as someone who used to wake up early for farm work, 5am/8pm I can attest to 5am being the time the sky gets lighter in may/june. I noticed other flowers responding to the light but dandelions didn't grow there.
I doubt it's exactly the same every day but probably pretty close unless it's overcast.
I can confirm that Dock Leaves do indeed provide relief for nettle stings. It worked for me as a child all the time, because I kept jumping into nettle patches!
In the US mugwort is a weed... And now that I know that I'm seeing it everywhere
in some parts of the US mugwort is an invasive species. so depending on where you are, you can feel free to dig up the whole plant - roots and all. it may help your local environment a bit on top of all the magickal and medicinal properties! i’m just starting to learn about invasive species, so i’m by no means an expert, but it’s worth looking in to :)
I wish that I can find it
I'm in the US so I'll have to learn more about the plant so I can harvest them.
I find it interesting that butter cup can be dangerous because I remember as a kid every child picked them and put them under people's chins like "oh I can tell you like butter."
IMPORTANT POINT ABOUT WEEDS: You sort of touched on this but I didn't hear it come right out in the clear, so... Anyone who wants to try using "weeds" (especially the ubiquitous dandelion) should NOT just use any picked from a yard, park, or roadside (at least here in the US)! Any greenery of any kind in those areas is likely to have been sprayed with varying combinations of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. that can be absorbed into a plant (as opposed to just coating the leaves and thus be washable) -- and those chemicals can easily sicken you, your pets/familiars, etc. When harvesting plants, make sure they have truly grown "in the wild" and not been sprayed in this manner.
That said...Technically, a rosebush in the middle of a cornfield is as much a weed as a dandelion in the middle of a lawn. :-) Something that really caught my attention was the use of dandelion seed heads as a timekeeping tool -- I'd never heard of that before! I had long ago learned about making a wish and blowing on them (if all the seeds blew away, your wish was supposed to come true). Now I'm wondering if this is just something I missed or a difference between the opposite sides of The Pond... any of my fellow Yanks able to help me out with this question?
PS - Dandelions are weeds only because they offend more modern ideas of "proper" lawns... They can be so useful that they were brought over to North America by settlers from the UK, and just about every part of the plant is useful. (Somehow, my neighborhood homeowners' association doesn't want to hear about it... )
So happy to see you talk about this!
Months ago I had a dream that recurred: I walked out the back door of a little house straight into a garden of herbs, weeds, flowers, and all sorts of strange plants. I went all the way to the end where there was gardeners shed. It just sticks with me--I have made great efforts to control by hand the "weeds" and desired plants which now could be different.
More videos on what grows around us--I loved this! TYVM
The problem with the name "Dock" is that it refers to different plants in different areas. The one you described as being used to wrap butter is properly called Butterbur (Petasites species). In the Northwest of England, dock often refers to Common Sorrel (Rumex acetosa), which does relieve nettle stings, but in West Yorkshire, dock is the local name for Bistort (Polygonum bistorta), which is traditionally used to make "Dock Pudding".
That's really interesting. My mother (in the US) taught me that sorrel and dock were the same plant. I grow large leaf sorrel for a lemony addition to my salads. I'll have to look up a recipe for "dock pudding", as now I'm imagining a delicious lemony flavored custard.
That explains so much. I'm in the south US, and I had NEVER heard of a plant called a Dock. Sorrel, while uncommon around me, is a plant I'm more familiar with though.
For the nettle stings, you need to crush the dock leaf in your hands very hard so the juice comes out and then drip that on the sting - it's soothing :)
It’s so interesting because dandelion in Norwegian literally translates to lion tooth! Løve-tann! :)
I'd love to know and magical uses of mushrooms and toadstools. I've always had a strange fascination with them. I like drawing them too. They remind me of childhood books about fairies.
I would love to see more videos like this. If you decide to talk about more plats or weeds in the future, would you consider to include a picture of each plant? I think it could be helpful to recognise the plant you are talking about. :)
I once found a bunch of five - and six leaf clovers in a patch of the lawn by my elementary school. There were lots of them, and I wonder wether it was some variety of clover or just mutated ones, because the rest of the lawn only had regular three leaf clovers. I remember me and my friends picking several of each and thought that we would get a lot of extra luck, because we found so many of them. I have never seen clovers like that since.
The main reason I didn’t was to stop people from jumping in to picking plants without doing further research to fully identify them. Helps to stop people from going out and picking something that looks similar 😊
honestly the amount of research and information and prep you do for a video, really really makes me happy to support you! Thank you so so much for your efforts!
When I was younger, we used to pick Dandelion flowers with the stem and make head beads, beautiful and yellow
This is so relevant! I was just thinking about ways to use Garlic Mustard which is an invasive species here in North America. It's biennial and when young it's got round leaves with scalloped edges, that become more pointy as they get older. I recommend looking into how to identify them as well as their uses in food (it's got a garlic-y, bitter flavor) as well as spellwork. Using them does the environment a favor, and also they're versatile and abundant p much everywhere.
Love how you out the old type names for each weed. Your videos are amazing. Thank you so much❤❤❤
So glad you posted this! Was looking in a different witches videos for the correspondents with clover! I'd love a whole video on clovers and clover flowers! I've always loved tying them into tiaras and recently discovered that my grandpa who is irish is with me as a guide. He always was able to find 4 leaf clovers just sitting from a chair, not even on the ground.
You posted this at the most perfect time. I have a new yard and was just figuring out what weeds I want to keep for my practice and what to pull. I also just bought some native plants that are called weeds but I love clover and other ground cover. So I will be planting more weeds and am very excited. This video will make my day! Hugs Hearth 🌱💛
If you can, let the yard run wild. Let the native species take over the space, your local wildlife will thank you for it. You can also grow a relationship with the plants and gain their permission and feed off of their energy for workings.
Could you next time add some pictures of the plants your talking about? That would be super helpful!
Please do deep dives on dandelions, dailies, and clovers! Other wild plants i would suggest are "heal-all" (prunella vulgaris), and common plantain (plantago major)!
I always love your videos for straightforward information, your videos are always a wonderful resource that i go back to often! Sending you love!
I once learned about the "Piss-a-bed" name of Dandelion after I had the pleasure of living up to that name. I fully understand the power and potency of Dandelion and will treat her use with a lot more lightness 😭🤣
I really love using white dead-nettle in witchcraft, it grows quite abundantly around me in the countryside, and I find it useful for protection and cleansing
@35:20 I hear you, Hearth, my hair frizzes out so bad in the summer. That little dying noise, is exactly what my hair does if I take it out of a bun too soon. It just kinda sadly deflates and then frizzes out. Im undecided on the curly girl method so far, but I do think the extra conditioner helps hold the curl better and makes it less frizzy. Is it a waste of conditioner? Possibly. Does it make my hair hella soft? Very.
I really enjoyed learning more about plants and their magical properties. I do hope you get your overalls on and do more videos on plant/garden magick because you're my go to person to learn about practices.
I have to say again that this was awesome! Just Loved it more than you know? Who knew? What an original way to teach us all about lost knowledge that we still all put to use? I absolutely adore it! Thank you, thank you, thank you.🔮
Great information, love the topic of foraging local plants
It’s admirable that you prioritize safety.
I've been practice for 4 years and have already heard of these but your correspondence on them is much better then mine. I'm saving this video. Thank you for your knowledge. 💜
Dock leaves regarding stinging nettles: the wax from the dock leaves fills in the tiny holes that a nettle creates in your skin. The pain from a nettle sting is mainly from air getting into the tiny holes. The wax from the dock leaves creates a barrier from the air. This can also be achieved with vaseline.
Dock leaves regarding burns:
I'm a nursing student who has had a placement in burns, and burns are often treated with yellow paraffin (aka vaseline) so long as the wound was not "open" and a risk to infection. This is usually used when the burn has fresh new skin that is red/pink where the wound bed was.
I am unsure whether it is again the waxiness of the dock leaf having similar properties to the vaseline as to why it was used for burns but it is an interesting concept/theory I would like to research and explore.
In an old video of yours I watched recently you talked about how a traditional form of candle magic worked with the element of fire and not the candle so you could reuse the same candle stick for multiple spells I think a video specifically on how you can do a spell like this would be great especially for some of us broke witches on a budget
I’m loving these videos. I’m a witch and my powers are very intense. The house I just moved to has a natural wild flower garden 🪴
When I was younger, we always got told to use the liquid that the dandelions hold. If you'd pick it, at the bottom there would be a milky substance (we called it dandelions milk) this most of the times did aid in soothing nettle stings
I would LOVE to see a full video of each of these weeds!
I love spring & summer so I can forage for all the beautiful "weeds" in my yard or local parks. Great topic Hearth! XX
I have about 10
4 leaf clovers that I saved & collected from my husband who has been founding them throughout the years we been together. Hes really good at spotting them. Its funny cuz before I ever met my husband. I never seen a real 4 leaf clover in my life I never even have been able to find one. But since I been with my husband I have found about 3 since we have been together. The first one I found while I was talking to him over the phone. But I never found one when I wasnt with my husband in person or talking with him on the phone. 💚💚💚💚
Very interesting, thank you for your research. One really interesting thing for me is one of the names for buttercup. Toe of frog, was used by the witches in Shakespeare's Macbeth. I didn't know it referred to the buttercup! ❤️
I appreciate you have a discord so I understand if you already cover this elsewhere but I think a video on herbology would be fantastic! Different soils, environments, magical practices.
FYI your blooper reels are fast becoming my favorite part of your channel 😂
Hi Hearth,
As an ecologist, and amateur gardener, I have to agree that weeds isn't the most appropriate term for these plants you discuss.
In fact, the more appropriate term is "early successional" plants, as they are the hardy opportunists that grow in recovering ecosystems to develop back into fully mature, old growth ecosystems after decades or centuries of development.
Also, dandelion is based on the French word that refers to the leaf shape that looks like lions teeth :)
Trefoil is the layman name for the scientific genus group of clovers "Trifolium." I wonder if there are different correspondences for the two super common Eastern US red clover (Trifolium pratense) and white clover (Trifolium repens). There are lots of similar plants like aslike clover (T. hybridium), buffalo clover, the endangered running buffalo clover, black medic aka hop clover (Medicago lupulina)
I love these types of videos so much!
Makes sense why "Buttercup" was the Powerpuff Girl that was the "mean one"
Loved this video Hearth, it's really lovely and interesting. Thank you for sharing.
I'm not very English-y person, it's not my mother tounge, but funny thing: before watching this video the only meaning of the word "weed" that I knew was in the "smoking weed" phrase ^^" Of course, I learned much more than that while listening and I am very thankful~ The way you talk and explain things inspire me to dig deeper into witchy knowledge, ahh there is so much to be learned about this world
Last time I was in Washington DC the healing/poisonous plants garden was still there. I hate to say this was years ago, but I'm ready for another trip there.
The bark of trees is another area of interest--cinnamon is bark, I have a "paperbark maple" growing for years, etc.
Weed that you smoke
Oh you mean hemp
Actually though I have read that some people smoke lavender
I have never tried it
Only tried it once, but was lovely 😀
Love this. This was very interesting. Thank you 🙏🏻
That was so interesting and informative! Thank you for sharing 💞
I thought you looked a little different than usual. Outtakes explain. Thanks for the video. Excellent content as usual.
Hi Hearth! Thank you so much for this video, dock and buttercups really are difficult to find information about so this was very helpful. I'd be very interested in any further video you could make about some properties of trees, like oak, holly and willow, or the creeper vines like ivy
Dandelion in Hungary is called Pitypang. so cute😀
Doc leaves are very powerful medicinal herbs, but the reason some feel the effect against nettles and some don't is because its the oil of the leaf not the leaf itself that works. For best results extract the oil using steaming
My sister has a form of color blindness that seems to let her easily see 4 leaf clovers. She can just stand in a patch and point 3-4 out without really doing much. She doesn't pick them though. As a kid she would and usually within the hour bad things seemed to happen to her. She sees them as unlucky signs for her now.
Three "weeds" that grow in my yard that I love and use are plantain, comfrey and evening primrose... Oh and wild chamomile 😉
I love this video and look forward to more 💜
Comfrey is a very useful plant in gardening, so I plan to grow some next year. I wish I had it growing wild!
I’m definitely going to start planting clover in my backyard!
I have been loving plantain atm and grows along my walking track!
I love weeds. Yarrow is my favourite British weed. Its a must for any witch imoa
You look so elegant in this Video, Hearth 🤩 very beautifull
Wow. I just watched another video of yours with your neon green eye shadow and I almost got a shock seeing you so natural with the brown. It makes you a whole completely different person, style wise. 😂
Love this topic! Also you have such a lovely complexion 😍
Yes please do a video on just clover!
That end but was so cute and fun!
great video!!! :) when I was little we used to rub dandelion flower on our skin and the yellow color symbolized something but I cant remember what lol.
One of your vids you talk about 'banish cleanse protect' or 'cleanse banish protect'...? forgot the order. I'd love a video on these three steps! I think I got the cleansing down esp from your other vids but the banish and protect part I am not feeling Im doing successfully.
thanks for all you do!!!!💚
Just wanted to share another name for Dandelion from my country (portugal): "Bald Dad" (Pai Careco/a), as kids we have a game where we ask eachother "Is your dad bald?" and then blow on the dandelion to see how much "hair" is still attached, always found that funny :P
I love this BC I love these herbs and so called weeds have wonderful magical properties. Burdock is also called cramp root for womens monthly visit so you can use it for tea. But consult someone to make sure they are this plant before consuming.
Time to go pluck all the dandelions out of my yard as another excuse so my dad doesn’t spray chemicals all over 🤣
I love this! Could you please go more in depth on dandilions and how you can use them?
I didn't realize until watching this video, that I've stopped referring to them as weeds, and just calling them "invasive" type plants, because really that's what people consider weeds, are plants that easily invade other spaces.
I also personally have to be careful with the thought of using dandelions because my mom is allergic, and I don't know if I inherited it some of that, along with our other allergies. (BTW apparently Lettuce is a part of the dandelion family. Thanks mom)
Now I want to look in my book of wildflowers native to Texas though, and research/find them to discover their magical properties.
I have had fruit trees that don't grow wildly just pop up since I started. I have eaten wild carrot mushroom strawberry wild garlic. I have learned parts of pine that are edible. I live on a farmstead left by my grandfather. I need my own bees! Dandelion can cause upset stomach it's good to clean you internally. I will try observing dandelion behavior. I have gone meadow and I walk out over 18 acres every day
I was going to harvest so many dandelions from my garden and do wonderful things. Then I didn't. I went away for a few days. Now I have knee high clocks EVERYWHERE!!!
Take the seeds and plant them!
Is it just me is hearth looking amazing in this vid. Rock it girl! 😉
I’ve never heard of a Dock leaf plant here in the USA. Loved hearing all the definitions of the “Weed” terminology. I’ve become completely immersed in learning everything & anything herb/weed related. Even the dandelions beautiful seed pods I have drying in their full natural form. They are truly magnificent dried. Blessed be🔮
My mother taught me to identify dock in the 1960s in the northern US, where it grows wild.
What about dead nettle you should definitely do part two 🥰❤️
I wanna know too! I'm growing them inside and they're growing nicely
My granny and I were always hunting dock leaves when I was a child. During World War II in Italy there was no sugar and kids used to suck the roots of dock leaves because of the sugary taste 🌿🌿
This is amazing, please do a clover video!!
I really love your make up, can you share alb of your eye shadows pallete and lipsticks? Thank you.
Weeds and witchcraft! My two favorite things! :D
In Persian we call dandelion "Ghasedak" which literally means "little messanger" and when ppl belive if you find a dandelion in an uncommon place it means someone is thinking of you or the universe wants to pass you a message
We made dandelion wine, jelly, and the root as coffee alternative a few times just to try it.
I enjoyed this. I thought chamomile came from the hearts of daisies. Is it a different flower?
Yes, chamomile is its own plant. Chamomile tea is made from the flowers of that plant. They do look kind of like small dasies, but the plant itself is quite different from daises.
I'd love to learn more about uses for milk thistle, golden rod, and cinquefoil.
I believe that if you dream of dandelion might tell you that you crave dandelion like energy in you life, never go for a good or bad meaning, be open to messages of all kind!
This was very interesting. Thanks.
The info on dock I believe is mixed up with plantane of which there are to variety’s a round leafed one and a long thin leafed one plantane works amazing on nettle stings you crush it up ulmost to a paste and gently rub it into the sting and it will relieve the pain and itch in a few seconds.
If you could make a video about where to research folk stuff (even if only in britain) it would be great! I love researching plants and I'm always kinda lost about where to read about them in magickal terms!
Thank you for this very important video! 👏🌿🌾🌼 You are very beautiful and one of the greatest witches under this sun. 🌱🌳💚
I would highly recommend Under the Bramble Arch by Corinne Boyer, if you can get it. It has a chapter about dock.
Dandelion also is used for a liver detox